In Morrowind, you could drink a potion that would make you better at alchemy, which you could then use to make a better potion that does the same thing... and so on until you are a god. It seems that in Skyrim, there are enchantments designed specifically to improve a skill. For example: A Novice Robe of Minor Destruction will decrease the magicka cost by 12% for all destruction spells cast while wearing it, or an Amulet of Minor Smithing will make improvements on weapons or armor 12% better while wearing it. If there is an enchantment for each of the 18 skills in Skyrim, you could find an amulet that improves enchanting ability, disenchant it to learn to make other magic apparel with it, and make a full set of "Enchanting Gear" with which you could make really powerful enchantments. However, if you were to use this set to make another set of enchanting gear, each set would be more powerful than the last, eventually allowing the player to create insanely powerful enchantments using petty souls. While this would clearly be an exploit of game mechanics, it would also be really freaking cool. The problem could easily be solved by taking any enchanted loot that contains said magical effect, but where's the fun in that? Discuss.

Interesting...we will see if this holds true as enchanting is probably one of the most important parts of personalizing a game

I would definitely do this if it was an option...it would take FOREVER, and be well worth it. I think it could get patched out if it becomes too serious a problem but it seems harmless enough to be one of those things that the devs say "hey if your willing to spend 50 extra hours min/maxing an enchanting set then more power to you".

I see what you mean. I think it's capped by the perks though

A 'reduce cost of conjuration spell' is actually affecting in the way that a perk would i.e. a lesser form of 'novice spell reduced by 50%' or the like.

I don't think it's clear that Improving your enchanting allows you to create stronger enchanted objects, you have to choose the perks to do that - improving your enchanting skill only unlocks the ability to get higher ranked perks.

I appreciate that's not that clear (it's early in the morning here!) but do you see what I mean?

I think this is capped because the skill limits are capped. In Morrowind you could easily go way above 100 skill with your character, so all kinds of weirdness was possible. Like infinite Magica, using basically the same trick you just mentioned.

The cool thing about the enchantments for these skills is that the actually enchantment applies directly, it doesn't just improve your skill. If you look at the descriptions for the Novice Robe of Minor Destruction and the Amulet of Minor Smithing, they actually say: "Decreases magicka cost of destruction spells by 12%" and "Makes improvements to weapons and armor 12% better," respectively, and not "+12 destruction skill" or "+12 smithing skill."

You may well be right, yeah - if it was a "enchantments are X% stronger" then yeah, you could well have a point my friend

I'm going to add a Magicka +1,000,000 enchantment to my robe

That would be nice

I'd actually like to see this kind of thing work, just not as ridiculously well as in Morrowind. There would have to be some other limiting factor, e.g. resources could be more scarce...

If this is possible, I'm totally doing it. This sort of trickery is right up my Nightblade's alley.

Yeah me too, I'd bloody love it!

I believe it's doable but will require a tons of money and souls!

Good, I want to harvest as many souls as possible - HUZZAH!

I'm assuming that to prevent this exploit they will make any percentage gains against your base skill and not be cumulative.

Wait so do enchanments ever wear down or completetly off? or are they permanint?